Kanye West courts controversy with dead models hanging from nooses in leaked Monster

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Kanye West courts controversy with dead models hanging from nooses in leaked Monster video

Sunday, January 02, 2011

With dead models hanging from nooses around their necks and dismembered heads littering the floor, Kanye West has produced what must surely be his most controversial video yet. The video for Monster, leaked online today, even shows Kanye in bed with a couple of apparently dead models, positioning their limp hands to touch one another. Other scenes show a woman dragging a dead male model across the floor and a couple feasting on a bloody corpse. As well as Kanye, the video also features cameo appearances from Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z, Rick Ross and indie-folk star Bon Iver. It isn't the first time Kanye has courted controversy with a video. He was forced to remove a graphic video featuring a sex scene and self-mutilation from his website last year. The rapper had posted an 11-minute film titled We Were Once A Fairytale, which is directed by Spike Jonze, on his blog on Monday.

It follows West, 32, on a drunken night out. He is seen having sex with a stranger, projectile-vomiting rose petals and then stabbing himself in the stomach. Shortly after the footage appeared, the hip hop star removed it from his site and issued an apology.

— Daily Mail

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